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South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned his office with immediate effect. The BBC reports that Zuma made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. A meeting of the ANC’s National Executive Committee had announced its decision to recall Mr Zuma on Tuesday and gave him until the end of Wednesday to resign. ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu then announced a parliamentary motion of no-confidence for Thursday, to pave way for Cyril Ramaphosa,  Deputy President of ANC to be sworn in as president. The 75-year-old has been in power since 2009, had been accused…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has commenced the recovery of its landed properties worth N100 billion across the country. Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran, the chief operating officer of Ventures of the NNPC Properties Ltd (NPL), the real estate management company of the NNPC stated this at the maiden edition of NPL Property Festival held on Tuesday at the NNPC Towers, Abuja. Adeniran stressed that the focus of the NPL had shifted from the initial lease administration of collecting rents from tenants of the NNPC properties to “exploring all commercial opportunities available in the real estate market to efficiently position…

A Nigerian-born Catholic priest has been ex-communicated for allegedly breaching rules of confession secrecy. While excommunicated, Father Ezinwanne Igbo cannot participate in public worship, celebrate or receive sacraments and cannot exercise any office of ministry in the church. Pope Francis ordered that Fr. Igbo of Stella Maris parish in Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia be axed after a two-year investigation. The Archbishop of Mark Coleridge said in a statement Father Igbo was alleged to have breached rules of confession secrecy from 2016, which is a canonical (church) offence. “The Archbishop then submitted the judgment to the Holy See, who subsequently requested that…

Plans to dualise Abak-Ikot Abasi Road in Akwa Ibom State at N47 billion are underway following approval by the National Assembly Committee on Niger Delta Affairs. Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) stated this Tuesday during interaction with leaders and stakeholders of Oro Think Tank from the five local government areas in Eket senatorial district of the state. Ekere said: “NDDC will carry out the dualisation of Abak road all the way to Ikot Abasi to link with the East-West road. What NDDC is trying to do is that we will take that road…

Against the incessant kidnappings, mindless killings and robbery incidents in Ukanafun local government, the council chairman has given the hoodlums a one-month quit notice or be ready to face the wrath of government. Uko Idiong, Ukanafun helmsman who spoke with StraightNews in a telephone interview, Wednesday, said “I have given the hoodlums one month to renounce criminal activities. Between now and ending of March, insecurity in Ukanafun would be a thing of the past. I have held a meeting with the village and clan heads on this. If it means involving traditional injunction, we will do it to ensure that…

The alleged proliferation of 425 Fulani herdsmen settlements in South West including Kwara and Kogi and South East Regions is seen as an attempt by the Fulani to conquer the Southern part of the country. Professor Banji Akintoye, a Second Republic Senator and Maj. Gen. Collins Ihekire, (retd), former chairman, Task Force on Illegal Importation and Smuggling of Goods, Small Arms, Ammunitions and Light Weapons (NATFORCE), who raised alarm over the proliferation of herdsmen in the South West and South East states said such pose security risk. They spoke this in Lagos weekend at the 1st National Colloquium tagged: ‘Herdsmen,…

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has commenced its 2018 recruitment drive to get new officers. In a short message on social media on Wednesday, February 7, the law enforcement agency has warned prospective applicants who intend to apply for the job not to make payments to anybody. The force said: “The Nigeria Police Force invites applications from suitably qualified Nigerians for enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force as police constables (recruits).” Members of the public are advised to check the full details of the recruitment advertisements on the following National Dailies of today, Wednesday, February 7, 2018. Leadership Newspaper -…

Total E&P Nigeria Limited in collaboration with Akwa Ibom state government is set to build a 170-capacity Skills Acquisition Centre at Atan Offot in Uyo local government area for women in the state. On completion, the centre would provide the needed facility for the training of Akwa Ibom women in entrepreneurship and skills capacity. Mr. Nicholas Terraz, the Managing Director of the company, said at the ground-breaking ceremony for the centre that his company intends to improve the earning capacity of women in its operation areas as a means of stimulating the local economies of host communities and the entire…

Twenty-Two students of Government Secondary School, Misau, in Bauchi State including their driver Tuesday died in an auto crash along Bauchi-Kano road. Of the number, 12 were males while the remaining 10 were females. Mr. Kabir Ibrahim-Daura, the Public Relations Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps in Kano State, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the accident occurred around 11 a.m. near Tsaida village in Gaya local government area of the state. Ibrahim-Daura said the students were travelling to Kano for an excursion when their bus had a head on collusion with a DAF truck. He said the 22 students…

Analysts on a private radio station in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital Tuesday x-rayed the various methods of election rigging, predicting that the 2019 general elections in the country using electronic voting system will be full of more surprises. The analysts who were speaking on Comfort FM, Uyo identified the use of under age children as a method of election rigging, predicting that “Rigging in 2019 general election will make that of 2015 a child’s play.” They cited “Look at what happened Saturday in Katsina state where there was a bye-election into the House of Representatives. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…